Layered

Magali Gentric ·

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
09 November / 08 December 2019

KIM BARTER
Layered

Kim Barter draws inspiration from the landscape, observing and immersing herself in its power, beauty and fragility. Working from sketchbooks filled with drawings, paint splotches, rubbingsand notes, Barter’s gestural style evokes sensations of wonder, layered with colour, texture and line.

Barter’s mark-making stems from a process of intuition, her time in the studio a period of intense reflection and consideration. She begins working in a way that attempts to remove all the words and visual ‘reality’ of the landscape, searching for an unselfconscious response to share her feelings and thoughts. Her work serves as a reminder to herself and others of the beauty of Australia’s terrain.

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Found

Magali Gentric ·

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
10 September / 02 October 2016

KIM BARTER
Found

I believe that in our soul everything works together and we don’t

necessarily need to be conscious of the details. It’s about just being able to be in the moment. To accept that moment, to value it and trust it.

It is a most exciting experience to get out of my own way.

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Slow Release

Magali Gentric ·

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one
09 April / 08 May 2016

GREG WOOD
Slow Release

In this series of paintings, Melbourne-based artist Greg Wood draws inspiration from collected imagery. Works ranging from large to miniature-scale, Wood presents the viewer with a collection of gestural and dream-like landscapes.

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Moonface

Magali Gentric ·

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
11 April / 31 May 2015

NICHOLAS IVES
MOONFACE

Some of Nicholas Ives’ thinking toward his painting and studio process is to do with the question of possibilities within the painting process and as a methodology.

Ives finds that incidents and experiences of painting(vb) articulate multiple possibilities for new lived realities. A painting is the mid-state of an event that operates as an experience with infinite divergence; ie, the instability of the painting process is a fluid reality that moves in the direction of the unlimited. The moment of painting is lived and defies abstraction as it is an experiential travel towards a multitude of moments, both past, future and side-by-side. Painting moments always open new painting moments and will disrupt previous painting moments. 

Ives likes thinking that these events of destabilisation, transformation and evolution, as well as decay, rupturing and loosening, reveal new manners, limitless spaces and openings and connections.

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A Drawing in of Landscape

Magali Gentric ·

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
14 February / 29 March 2015

KIM BARTER
A Drawing in of Landscape

 “I do my best work when I have the mental and emotional space to actually ‘be’ there. To be really present. Working in the bush, in deserts, by the sea and in the mountains, I can concentrate on what is central in the moment.

The environment is something I slowly begin to see in its completeness and majesty as well as in details, shapes, silhouettes, it’s patterns and rhythms. The contrasts and changes of mood between morning and evening light. Smells carried by winds, tracks and markings show endless significant journeys, vapour trails in skies. I fill sketchbooks with my observations.

It is a consciousness that busy lives are often forced to or choose to ignore and that makes my experience very precious to me because I am able to be where I want to be. So my work is an attempt to share my feelings and observations with others. It is an attempt to honour my own experience.

My books ‘invite’ the viewer into the landscape of my mind and into the environment. The larger paper works, (or large pages) attempt to express the context of the books in a living way. They are to honour the magnitude of the natural world. They are to excite and create visual interest and experience.”

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Papier

Magali Gentric ·

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one
08 September / 07 October 2012

KIM BARTER
Papier

Kim Barter’s Papier is an exhibition of paintings and drawings that express the inner feeling of being ‘in the landscape’. Starting from sketches undertaken on various camping trips in places as diverse as the beach, the desert, and the mountains, Kim imbues memory and feeling into the motion of her brushstrokes and mark-making. Allowing chance and a sense of self-discovery to guide her hand, she conjures up evocative work that is richly layered yet wildly free.

Utilising random gestural drawings, paint splotches, rubbings and notes, Kim’s interpretation of the landscape reflects how it ages, adapts, evolves, suffers and celebrates life. These colourful, uplifting paintings are reflective of the strength and beauty of the landscape, and are geared to inspire a reconnection with the potency of a reality we all share but all too easily find ourselves absent from.

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Secondhand Serenade

Magali Gentric ·

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
08 September / 07 October 2012

STEFAN GEVERS
Secondhand Serenade

The influence of abandoned places on our imaginations and memories.

Stefan Gevers explores how a place abandoned and forgotten can still exert a spiritual influence on the imagination or memory. The work in his new show will focus on overlooked details in the landscape, magnifying evidence of human intervention and presence and exploring the interface between the man-made and nature.

All of my art is inspired by road trips in regional Australia where I search for forgotten objects and places. In these desolate spots, I identify the essential visual elements that will allow me to evoke the silence and stillness of these ignored – yet fundamental – parts of the Australian landscape. In 2008, my exhibition, Natural Order, presented images of a stranded car, an old wooden bridge and crumbling watertanks showing the plight of the man-made in the face of the unrelenting forces of nature. In 2010, my exhibition, Forgotten Places, focused on abandoned places which were once central to people’s lives and the temporal nature of our interaction with nature.

My work attempts to provoke both a visual and spiritual experience in others by prompting them to contemplate notions of abandon- ment, degradation and loss in relation to both the Australian landscape and themselves.

Stefan appears at Stockroom courtesy of Anita Traverso Gallery